Lead story

Thatcher’s gone the fight goes on

by Daphne Liddle

THE DEATH of Margaret Thatcher, announced last Monday, has highlighted the deep and growing class division in Britain. The working class has rejoiced while the ruling class and all its toadies have mourned.

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US imperialism and the facts behind the Korean crisis

by Neil Harris

South Korean military provocations directed at the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are a regular event and usually increase during the annual spring military manoeuvres, conducted jointly with the United States. This year has been different, both in the ferocity of the southern rhetoric and the way in which it has been backed up by American nuclear threats.

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Editorial

The Iron Lady rusts away

MARGARET Thatcher’s death this week has been marked by the usual platitudes that bourgeois politicians reserve for those who have well served the British ruling class. Tory leaders, together with all the other mainstream parliamentary parties, have swamped the media with their crocodile tears at the death of the first woman prime minister in British history who passed away in London’s Ritz Hotel at the ripe old age of 87.

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